I don't comment on TH-cam very often. But this time I had to offer my thanks and express my deep relief. After my 4TB external Seagate refused to mount, I lost all hope. Even though I've lost extremely valuable data before when another external drive was dropped on a concrete floor, I still somehow managed to fall way behind in backing up my Seagate. I knew I'd lost years of work but the thing that bothered me most was that I couldn't remember what else was on the drive. There's no feeling quite like losing hard drive. After a desperate search I found this video and was afraid to believe it could be so simple. Long story short, it was! I cracked open the case, removed the SATA bridge card and plugged the drive into a dock at work. It mounted immediately and I couldn't be happier. Thank you!
Best Buy Geek Squad just quoted me 600-10K for data recovery of my failed external hard drive. They literally said there was nothing to be done if the hard drive won't power up. I had a spare, working hard drive. I followed the instructions in this video and I had my data back in minutes. Thank you!
Brilliant! Bought a new SATA bridge connector from Amazon ($10), removed casing around Seagate external, disconnected old SATA, connected new one, worked like a charm! You really saved me a lot of headache. Thanks a million!
You wouldn't happen to have a link on what Sata bridge connector you bought on Amazon would you 4 years later? lol I also have Seagate external drive 5 TB.
I'm sure you won't see this and I don't usually leave comments, but I do want to say THANK YOU! Fallen upon this video gave me enough information to try to save an old hard drive once again... After accepting that thousands of pictures of my son from the ages of 1-5 were gone forever I actually managed to get them back today. It was indeed that SATA bridge, and they are all backed up now on a working drive, and soon to be going into even more redundancy in a RAID 6 NAS that I'm building.... So anyway, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU !!! (on a side note it is my birthday today, and I could not have asked for a better gift)
Hi excuse me but does the hard drive has a lifespan? I mean after it gets disconnected or something. I'd be disappointed if I lost all my sister's childhood photos.
@@DialthebarSoap No they work forever. You should not ever make another copy, because the drive you bought is fine and will never ever fail. *** NOT TRUE!*** Make three copies of all data that's important. If you move photos from your phone and delete them, that is not a backup.
My hard drive wasn't being recognized by any computer. A local data recovery guy asked me for $250 to recover the data. I watched your video, bought a dock for $50, popped the naked hard drive in and Instantly accessed my data. Thank You!
You saved my decade old data backups, few hundreds of dollars and gave me peace of mind brother... I have no words to thank you for reminding this simple but never think fact that these so called external drives are the same internal drives wrapped with fancy enclosures.. Due to lockdown, I was thinking when I could send my external drive to a pro for recovering data for an unprecedented bill.. Being a tech fan, fortunately I have a robust hard drive dock and the stripped drive worked like a charm... Thanks a billion !
Divine intervention must have brought this video to me right now, today. I am going to try this, and if it works... you are in need of major compensation for making this video and beating the system, and exposing the secret. This data loss is not just a small thing this is a SPIRITUAL WAR against losing our memories as human beings and being in a constant state of AMNESIA. Back when we had photos and photo albums, you drop a photo on the ground and it floats to the ground, unscathed, now you drop a hard drive and in a blink of a second years of memories are gone. We need to reclaim our power and stop giving our precious memories to these devices and do like retro times and have things in analog. You are an amazing person for exposing this secret. I don't know how I must have found your video but by chance, my prayers may be answered.
You "saved my bacon"; many, many thanks. I was able to retrieve old family videos, photos, and projects because of this video. I was told that my old hard drives were dead and it would cost me hundreds of dollars to get the information. I sent you a little bacon, too.
"Responsible for 95% of hard drive deaths". Spot on. I thought I had lost a slew of precious irreplaceable data. I cannot thank you enough. God bless you.
@@baccount2813I have a Seagate 2TB external hard drive. The light was on but not blinking and my computer was not detecting anything. I seen this video stating that the SATA bridge is to blame for 95% of hard drive failures, so I did further research and found this video: th-cam.com/video/AW12Cm7L3qA/w-d-xo.html It's specifically for Seagate drives but you should be able to apply it. Once I replaced the SATA bridge, all files appeared again. Please let me know how you do.
@@terryriley1174 I have 4TB external harddrive and it shows up on my PC but unable to access it. It gives a pop up message to format the drive. I ran chkdsk (couldn't complete the chkdsk) on my external harddrive and during the process it gave errors like 'file record segment unreadable' and 'deleting corrupt attribute record from file record segment'. I checked the properties of the drive through a partition software and it showed used space: 0kb and free space : 3.64TB. Don't know how to go about it
Thank you, this worked for me! I retrieved about 10 years of photos and data by purchasing a $30 AU SATA adapter. Very happy I came across your video. So thanks again :)
This was a good help video in that it didn't piss about with intro sequences (which are completely redundant on this post TV media platform) and didn't bury the speech with unnecessary background music. I happen to still have an external harddrive case with a SATA card so I can check if this is the problem.
Very useful video. Thanks. A USB-SATA conversion cable ($10) also works to get data off. When I hacked open my Seagate 3.5" 2TB, I blew the dust off the SATA Bridge PCB, pulled it out and put it back and the drive started working again for a short time. This might help someone copy data across if they are in a hurry. I then bought a powered 2.5/3.5" USB3.0 to SATA conversion cable ($10) to replace the broken SATA Bridge PCB for my 3.5". It was cheaper than a dock and I don't access the drives often. I also decided to get naked and bought 3x 2TB 3.5" internal hard drives and some nice colourful plastic boxes to store them in and use the cable to access them when/if needed. The article you link to is also interesting and useful.
My wife is a muslim and supposedly so am I, my wife and my daughter were in conversation about consuming pork.. "HALAL!", I interjected and said, "if God hadn't intended us to eat pigs, he wouldn't Have made them out of bacon, would he.." ... Job done.
I held on to my segate external hard drive for years without success, but after watching your video I was able to save my hard drive. Thank you so much🙏🏽
I absolutely love this video. Thanks for this informative video. Hell I was late to the party. But in 2022 this video is still relevant . Much appreciated.
I am going to try this AFTER I move, and maybe this backup drive falling is a sign to stop obsessing over my objects and files before I move houses, and to focus on sorting through my memories and files after I move and enjoy the last moments in my childhood home.
Well, your tip JUST SAVED MY BACON. My external seagate drive stopped working, so I opened it took the drive out and installed it in an external case, it works just fine, I’m backing it up as I write this note of great gratitude and thanks.
While the video was a little repetitive, you eventually covered all the points and saved me a lot of money, the article was also very helpful and detailed!
You just saved my data with pictures and iTunes folder. My Portable Samsung just stopped working, it happened a few weeks ago where it wouldn't mount, but after a few plus / unplug it worked again and I forgot about it, till yesterday or it didn't wanted to mount. Disk seemed to be ok, but little light didn't blink, so after listening to your video, it all made sense, now it's ok, but I'll make a second copy for sure. THANKS!
Awesome Video, "WD My Passport" dead for 5 years sprang to life as soon as I connected the Sata 2.5" USB adapter off Amazon £6.00. Now for some caddies, ripping out the old PC, and remixing the archives.. Thank you for your help Theoria!
I have an old Seagate Barracuda Hdd that would not connect to my PC. It would make a sound like it wanted to start spinning and then it would stop and make a faint click. After watching this vid I went to Best Buy got a hard drive dock, I removed the SATA bridge from the hdd and docked the hdd and it fired right up. I have to mention that I first tried it on an old W7 laptop and the laptop would not read it. Tried with W10 laptop and it worked. Thank you for making this vid.
After watching ten of these videos, I started first by replacing the external transformer plug-in for seven bucks and it worked. The transformers do a lot of step-down current work and are prone to failure.
That's why I still prefer regular hdd's to ssd's. They both will fail, but hdd's are much cheaper and if they do fail, the data is still there and can be easily recovered.
Bacon Man, I just gotta say, this is Incredible. Why didn't I try and find this information seven years ago? You just got my one drive back up and running no problem with a dock, and I'm looking forward to trying to crack open a Lacie.
Good information, but not very explanatory. I did save one of my external hard drives by taking the factory bridge card out and using a powered one. But what about regular 2 and 1/2 inch drives? I don't see any real information that helps on that subject here.
I have a WD USB 3.0 powered external drive. It works for about 5 mins then stops. Sometimes I can get it to remain spinning by unplugging it then plugging it back in. It will work fine for a few days then the problem returns. Sometimes I hear clicking noises coming from inside it. I'm not sure if that means it is dying or if the cable is bad or the random failure is the result of the component you highlighted in this video.
I have a WD My Passport Ultra that has failed. You said in the article to buy a similar model and swap the HD. Can you provide some info on how to do this? @Theoria Apophasis
I did this a few years ago to a 2 T external hard drive, where the external enclosure stopped, but I took the hard drive out of it, and it was like any other hard drive and all I had to do was plug it in to my desktop as a second hard drive, and it still works today; and I didn't lose any of the data that was on it.
I have used freezing hard drives to good effect on occasion and can be a useful non-invasive step. Obviously bagged with silica gel to avoid condensation issues. Several reasons can attribute the method.
I figured that out many years ago. Tho' I don't recall ever having an external drive fail. I still have an 80gb external I used as a backup, over 15 years ago. It still works fine. I have a HDD dock, plus a couple of loose cable connector type. With the 2½in, you buy a single cable that plugs into the HDD and usb of computer. It powers the drive as well.
Got really excited when I saw this video, but I tried it and it still doesn't work. I can hear it spinning, but the light isn't on and it doesn't show up. I've tried bridges from other working hard drives, bridges I've bought online, nothing,. There's so much cool stuff on there I'd kill to see again.....very sad.
currently getting a Critical Hardware error when trying to initialize a few SSDs , thought it was just bad luck -- never thought it was the SATA bridge.. The hdd dock is brilliant just ordered one .. I hope this works!
I wonder if this works for a Seagate Backup Drive that is like standing upright, that fell off my desk, manufacture date: 2012. It looks like a black box standing upright on my desk. It is not a portable hard drive. I would want to try this method ALSO with my other two portable drives as well that fell off my desk in 2015, and in 2021.
Plus he's entertaining in his nonchalance. I think he'd make a great animated superhero character. Naturally the saved his bacon line would be his trademark.
Hi Theoria, Finding your channel was a spiritual godsend. If I cannot fix my backup drive by myself, do you fix them yourself and is that something I could pay for? Not sure if you would be able to do that but if so I would be willing to pay you whatever your price to ship my backup drive to you and pay for return shipping and have the data recovered. If not, that is fine too I just wanted to inquire. Thank you, Tanya.
Hey T, I just wanted you to know...... I am an avid follower. Turned pro 2 years ago and have 8 regular clients. AND, I want to say Thank you. I shoot Ballet and other stage type events in NYC. I bought a D7100. Because....YOU WERE RIGHT!!! I'm going thru some lens mistakes right now and am watching your series on lenses. But, I have a few questions if you have the time.
This is relevant for drives circa 2012 which are still in use today.. The separate SATA/USB bridge found in that vintage drive has since been been integrated on the drive PCB as a reliability and cost reduction improvement.
Interesting. I had a WD external drive I was using for my Time Machine backups stop working after I moved. I cracked the thing open and took the 2 hard drives out and bought a dock to run them in. I didn't realize why the original casing failed. I only had the things for a few months and I didn't think the hard drives inside failed, that it was something else. It was a 4TB drive that had 2TB drives inside.
I don't think I understand where the instructions are other than the info that is just explaining how the hard drive looks inside. Great....but mine fell and unplugged while I was editing a video and now its reading empty. I am not sure where in the video you are saying how to get files back, just that you can rip it open and see the parts. If I do that, I'm screwed. Can you tell me where (minute count) in this video are the steps I can take? All my business files are on this one drive that I treated like a baby till it fell unexpectedly. I only have some of my info backed up. Thanks
OMG! I spent 2 hours with apple tech support, they never mentioned this - she just said it's an external hard drive crash, probably dead. Bring it to an apple store. Thank you, I feel like now, I might be a little more educated, I don't feel like a sitting duck :-) your awesome. How much should I expect to be charged by them or should I put my head down and TRY to understand the fix and do it myself? I noticed it sounds like a car in the wrong gear. I tried all the R, P holding...Turning off and on, unplugging, blahhh, blah, but the cursor is still in the upper left hand corner and not responding. Also, the bluetooth icon at the top of the (screen to the date) has a squiggley line thru it. the wifi is gray and not communicating. Could your video be what I need? BTW, I ate bacon twice yesterday!
Some times after dropping a external hard drive you can remove it from it's case and and connect it to the SATA and power cable inside the computer and it can sometimes work to help you retrieve your data
Can you show an actual video of removing a hard drive from it's casing and hooking everything up? I have the black plastic casing off of my hard drive, but there is still the metal casing around it. Do I need to remove that also? Because I tried to use the cords as it is and I'm still getting the errors. I can hear the hard drive spinning, but no clicks.
+Annette Belnap- Tips from a Typical Mom Before you do anything you should check if you have that hard drive virus that Russia gave millions of Americans. Go into C:/Windows and see if there is a folder named "system32" in there. if there is, then you have it and you must take ownership of the folder, then delete it. PM me for the deets on how to do this. I'll walk you through it, no probs. And, I just want to say you're welcome ahead of time.
Ynnek Thennek: LOL What is the matter with you? Do not EVER give advice on technology to anyone! EVER! I am 60 yrs old and even I know to not remove system32. It's an extremely important part of the Windows system.
Well... you saved my bacon... two weeks ago, one external hd for the xbox died; I can hear the spinning, but no light neither was detected by any device. Went to a repair shop and the guy -really rude btw- told me "those can not be repaired", without even check it. "How it happened?" he asked me, I explained, he told me some techno babble about over spinning, etc. I'm not an expert but I know enough to recognize techno babble, I left, and ordered a case 2.5 to usb 3.1, worked like a charm.
same thing happened to my brothers 1.5tb external... stopped working one day, gave it to me after he got another one. I ripped it open (was very well made to try stop people getting the drive out) got it out anyway put it straight into PC via sata and boom I have a new HDD lol
Okay, I found "If the external HD seems dead immediately without any signs of slowly dying, or noises, this is almost always a certain sign of SATA bridge failure in an external HD."
Hey bro I gotta dead drive and bought the Sabrent Dual Bay Docking station but my dead drive shows up but its not highlighted... the light is turning on, but the cloning light is not turning on... its not cloning for some reason... any suggestions??
Hello friend , im new to this world but im left to believe that though slower a disk drive would be safer for storing a important data . I assume an ssd failure is unresurectable
Holy shit this saved me a million times over. Not necessarily because the usb-sata bridge was broken, but I think previously I was underestimating how easy it is to get a bad connection of one due to incorrect USB power supply or wires or something. Either way I came here in the hope I could save a huge database of (manually recorded to WAV) music records. Plugged the thing back in with a new setup expecting corruption and voila... it bloody worked.
I have the same one you showing on the monitor, both lights blink on SATA bridge card and the disk spins but drive not showing up on my pc. Do you think I should order the SATA bridge connector replacement for it?
Hey - thanks for this. What about Sata compenents for the old type of USB? The one that is sort of square ended? I'm aftaid I don't know the correct name for this.
What he doesn't tell you is that the most common cause of failure of the little card is dried up electrolytic capacitors. Best is to replace them all. Only a few, and total cost, less than one dollar the lot!! Peter
have mains powered 4tb seagate hdd, whe first connecting the light is steady after 15-20 seconds it starts flashing then device manager says its not connected to the pc, not showing in windows or seatools any thoghts please
Not sure if this has been asked before (please excuse if it has) - What HD/SSD manuf should we rely on simply because they use good, quality SATA Bridges. Put another way, which manuf. should we avoid - of course based on yours and other subscribers experience. thanks so much
+Louis Hecht Jr WD BLACK (only the black), hitachi, or Toshiba there are now only really 4 HD mfg. on earth, theyve all been integrated into one another.
Seagate came up first with the HDD and beat all competitors and bought Western Digital. If you look now everything is made in China. Hitachi is Japanese a great brand to consider even though Hitachi and others have plants in China. My recommendation is to move on to SSD drives. Resistance is futiles you will be assimilated by technology. If you go to bestbuy store and see if they have HDD still.. I am going to choose SanDisk for my SSD to install WIndows in..
I've been holding on to an old external hard drive that failed on me in 2010, hoping that one day I might be able to find a way to salvage my old files. Because of this video I opened it up and found that actual drive is separate from the SATA bridge, so I just bought a simple $10 SATA to USB connector on Amazon to see if I can retrieve that old data. (I have a 2.5 inch, which looks more like 2.7 inches, they must round off in their descriptions, much like they round off data sizes, like saying a 250GB hard drive which is really 230GB.) EVEN if it doesn't work, I'm thankful to finally find out that I'm able to try. The sad part is I used to be irresponsible with my electronics and dropped the thing a lot, so it may not even work still, BUT, $10 is worth finally putting the mystery to bed. I'll reply in 2 days if managed to get back my data or not. Thanks man.
I know this is an older vid, but thank you. I've been dealing with a WD external that went down on me a week ago. Most I've been able to ascertain is something about a damaged partition table. I'll give the adapter a shot!!
Hello,I have an 8TB from 2019 and the arm is stuck( short buzzing sound). I took it to Gadget Pros and he said there was no way to get into the drive to manually move arm, no screws, Are theses things sealed so that they can't be opened, beyond the shucking? I pealed back the label and only found one small disc like piece with a small rivet in center. Thank you ETA: I assume if the arm is indeed stuck,plugging naked HD into dry dock will do no good?
I don't comment on TH-cam very often. But this time I had to offer my thanks and express my deep relief. After my 4TB external Seagate refused to mount, I lost all hope. Even though I've lost extremely valuable data before when another external drive was dropped on a concrete floor, I still somehow managed to fall way behind in backing up my Seagate. I knew I'd lost years of work but the thing that bothered me most was that I couldn't remember what else was on the drive. There's no feeling quite like losing hard drive. After a desperate search I found this video and was afraid to believe it could be so simple. Long story short, it was! I cracked open the case, removed the SATA bridge card and plugged the drive into a dock at work. It mounted immediately and I couldn't be happier. Thank you!
Thanks! Problem solved for $35; I was quoted "anything up to $2k to fix." You deserve a medal.
Best Buy Geek Squad just quoted me 600-10K for data recovery of my failed external hard drive. They literally said there was nothing to be done if the hard drive won't power up. I had a spare, working hard drive. I followed the instructions in this video and I had my data back in minutes. Thank you!
The video every data rescue companies don’t want you to watch! Thanks amigo!
Brilliant! Bought a new SATA bridge connector from Amazon ($10), removed casing around Seagate external, disconnected old SATA, connected new one, worked like a charm! You really saved me a lot of headache. Thanks a million!
You wouldn't happen to have a link on what Sata bridge connector you bought on Amazon would you 4 years later? lol I also have Seagate external drive 5 TB.
I'm sure you won't see this and I don't usually leave comments, but I do want to say THANK YOU! Fallen upon this video gave me enough information to try to save an old hard drive once again... After accepting that thousands of pictures of my son from the ages of 1-5 were gone forever I actually managed to get them back today. It was indeed that SATA bridge, and they are all backed up now on a working drive, and soon to be going into even more redundancy in a RAID 6 NAS that I'm building.... So anyway, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU !!! (on a side note it is my birthday today, and I could not have asked for a better gift)
Hi excuse me but does the hard drive has a lifespan? I mean after it gets disconnected or something. I'd be disappointed if I lost all my sister's childhood photos.
@@DialthebarSoap No they work forever. You should not ever make another copy, because the drive you bought is fine and will never ever fail.
*** NOT TRUE!***
Make three copies of all data that's important. If you move photos from your phone and delete them, that is not a backup.
This worked and saved my drive, thank you!!
My hard drive wasn't being recognized by any computer. A local data recovery guy asked me for $250 to recover the data. I watched your video, bought a dock for $50, popped the naked hard drive in and Instantly accessed my data. Thank You!
You saved my decade old data backups, few hundreds of dollars and gave me peace of mind brother... I have no words to thank you for reminding this simple but never think fact that these so called external drives are the same internal drives wrapped with fancy enclosures.. Due to lockdown, I was thinking when I could send my external drive to a pro for recovering data for an unprecedented bill.. Being a tech fan, fortunately I have a robust hard drive dock and the stripped drive worked like a charm... Thanks a billion !
Thanks to this video I saved my hard drive but ironically burned my bacon watching this while preparing breakfast.
Wahahaaaaaa
A life for a life.
good muslimz dont eat pork!
Divine intervention must have brought this video to me right now, today. I am going to try this, and if it works... you are in need of major compensation for making this video and beating the system, and exposing the secret. This data loss is not just a small thing this is a SPIRITUAL WAR against losing our memories as human beings and being in a constant state of AMNESIA. Back when we had photos and photo albums, you drop a photo on the ground and it floats to the ground, unscathed, now you drop a hard drive and in a blink of a second years of memories are gone. We need to reclaim our power and stop giving our precious memories to these devices and do like retro times and have things in analog. You are an amazing person for exposing this secret. I don't know how I must have found your video but by chance, my prayers may be answered.
You "saved my bacon"; many, many thanks. I was able to retrieve old family videos, photos, and projects because of this video. I was told that my old hard drives were dead and it would cost me hundreds of dollars to get the information. I sent you a little bacon, too.
The only video data rescue companies don’t want you to watch 😅 Thanks for another gem on YT dude.
"Responsible for 95% of hard drive deaths". Spot on. I thought I had lost a slew of precious irreplaceable data. I cannot thank you enough. God bless you.
@Terry Riley how did you manage to recover data?
@@baccount2813I have a Seagate 2TB external hard drive. The light was on but not blinking and my computer was not detecting anything. I seen this video stating that the SATA bridge is to blame for 95% of hard drive failures, so I did further research and found this video: th-cam.com/video/AW12Cm7L3qA/w-d-xo.html It's specifically for Seagate drives but you should be able to apply it. Once I replaced the SATA bridge, all files appeared again. Please let me know how you do.
@@terryriley1174 I have 4TB external harddrive and it shows up on my PC but unable to access it. It gives a pop up message to format the drive. I ran chkdsk (couldn't complete the chkdsk) on my external harddrive and during the process it gave errors like 'file record segment unreadable' and 'deleting corrupt attribute record from file record segment'. I checked the properties of the drive through a partition software and it showed used space: 0kb and free space : 3.64TB. Don't know how to go about it
@@terryriley1174 4TB WD passport hard drive
@@baccount2813 Sorry but I don't have a clue. I would just type some of those error messages verbatim into Google and take it from there..
Thank you, this worked for me! I retrieved about 10 years of photos and data by purchasing a $30 AU SATA adapter. Very happy I came across your video. So thanks again :)
This was a good help video in that it didn't piss about with intro sequences (which are completely redundant on this post TV media platform) and didn't bury the speech with unnecessary background music.
I happen to still have an external harddrive case with a SATA card so I can check if this is the problem.
Very useful video. Thanks.
A USB-SATA conversion cable ($10) also works to get data off.
When I hacked open my Seagate 3.5" 2TB, I blew the dust off the SATA Bridge PCB, pulled it out and put it back and the drive started working again for a short time. This might help someone copy data across if they are in a hurry.
I then bought a powered 2.5/3.5" USB3.0 to SATA conversion cable ($10) to replace the broken SATA Bridge PCB for my 3.5". It was cheaper than a dock and I don't access the drives often.
I also decided to get naked and bought 3x 2TB 3.5" internal hard drives and some nice colourful plastic boxes to store them in and use the cable to access them when/if needed.
The article you link to is also interesting and useful.
Cool info to know !! Thanks
Do you have a video of the actual procedure ? (disconnection of the SATA card) ?
For real. Was just gonna say, I've never heard or seen this information, and its so simple. Thank you
My wife is a muslim and supposedly so am I, my wife and my daughter were in conversation about consuming pork.. "HALAL!", I interjected and said, "if God hadn't intended us to eat pigs, he wouldn't Have made them out of bacon, would he.." ... Job done.
I held on to my segate external hard drive for years without success, but after watching your video I was able to save my hard drive. Thank you so much🙏🏽
I absolutely love this video. Thanks for this informative video. Hell I was late to the party. But in 2022 this video is still relevant . Much appreciated.
Thank you for this video. Our WD Black P10 sata bridge has gone bad, will any bridge work? This has a 2.5 inch HDD. Thanks!
I am going to try this AFTER I move, and maybe this backup drive falling is a sign to stop obsessing over my objects and files before I move houses, and to focus on sorting through my memories and files after I move and enjoy the last moments in my childhood home.
You keep saying how its this damn sata card well how do you fix the damn thing 😤😤
you get the little device he shows and you plug in the naked drive into it and plug in the machine to your computer
@@cyberwolf9591 What's that little device called?
@@iamco698 This might help you. th-cam.com/video/5cTZBMi-XwQ/w-d-xo.html
@@iamco698 This also: th-cam.com/video/PwQu37T1a50/w-d-xo.html
Well, your tip JUST SAVED MY BACON. My external seagate drive stopped working, so I opened it took the drive out and installed it in an external case, it works just fine, I’m backing it up as I write this note of great gratitude and thanks.
Please add a link in description for the external drive dock / bay that you recommend
Brilliant, thank you so much. What an easy solution and well explained. Cheers from the UK
While the video was a little repetitive, you eventually covered all the points and saved me a lot of money, the article was also very helpful and detailed!
What about the SATA bridge? Would replacing that save my bacon?
@@steamer2k319 to be honest I had to write off the data on the drive. Not sure if a new sata bridge would let you recover what's on your drive
THANK YOU ...for taking time to do this vid as many of us have these old drive
sitting on a shelf with data
You just saved my data with pictures and iTunes folder. My Portable Samsung just stopped working, it happened a few weeks ago where it wouldn't mount, but after a few plus / unplug it worked again and I forgot about it, till yesterday or it didn't wanted to mount. Disk seemed to be ok, but little light didn't blink, so after listening to your video, it all made sense, now it's ok, but I'll make a second copy for sure. THANKS!
I just lost access to my portable hard drive, you were right! Fixed it! Thanks
Hey man you saved my bacon. 5 TB seagate works again. Thanku!
Awesome Video, "WD My Passport" dead for 5 years sprang to life as soon as I connected the Sata 2.5" USB adapter off Amazon £6.00. Now for some caddies, ripping out the old PC, and remixing the archives.. Thank you for your help Theoria!
Thank you so much you saved me alot of Money!!!!
Glad I could help!
Thanks!
OMG DI, thank you so very very very much !!! wooooo wooooooo!!!!
I have an old Seagate Barracuda Hdd that would not connect to my PC. It would make a sound like it wanted to start spinning and then it would stop and make a faint click. After watching this vid I went to Best Buy got a hard drive dock, I removed the SATA bridge from the hdd and docked the hdd and it fired right up. I have to mention that I first tried it on an old W7 laptop and the laptop would not read it. Tried with W10 laptop and it worked. Thank you for making this vid.
Thanks! You saved my beef! :D
I am Muslim and I don't eat pork!
A big thanks all the way from Pakistan.
hehehehe, beef bacon :)
Spiritual Warfare Thanks I would love to eat turkey but it is not available here in pakistan. This territory is hooked on mutton and beef.
Great! More for me.
He saved my chicken. It had pictures of the hen party on the drive and all the chicks were glum.
lmao!!!
This man just saved all my bacon. Thank you kind sir.
excellent ! thank you... the world needs more honest people out there like you to help save a dollar instead of throw money away
After watching ten of these videos, I started first by replacing the external transformer plug-in for seven bucks and it worked. The transformers do a lot of step-down current work and are prone to failure.
That's why I still prefer regular hdd's to ssd's. They both will fail, but hdd's are much cheaper and if they do fail, the data is still there and can be easily recovered.
Awesome! I was able to resurrect my 'dead' external drive. Thanks!
Bacon Man, I just gotta say, this is Incredible. Why didn't I try and find this information seven years ago? You just got my one drive back up and running no problem with a dock, and I'm looking forward to trying to crack open a Lacie.
Hello, great video. I have a dead 2.5" external hard drive 2TB but it has no SATA bridge? What is the way to access it and save the data?
they all do, yours is integrated into the main board of the drive
You, sir, have saved my bacon. Thank you for the very informative video. Followed your instructions.
Good information, but not very explanatory. I did save one of my external hard drives by taking the factory bridge card out and using a powered one. But what about regular 2 and 1/2 inch drives? I don't see any real information that helps on that subject here.
what do i need to do or to buy to save my powerless 3.5 external hard drive
I have a WD USB 3.0 powered external drive. It works for about 5 mins then stops. Sometimes I can get it to remain spinning by unplugging it then plugging it back in. It will work fine for a few days then the problem returns. Sometimes I hear clicking noises coming from inside it. I'm not sure if that means it is dying or if the cable is bad or the random failure is the result of the component you highlighted in this video.
I have a WD My Passport Ultra that has failed. You said in the article to buy a similar model and swap the HD. Can you provide some info on how to do this? @Theoria Apophasis
This is legit. Plugged my external drive inside my computer, bam it's working.
I did this a few years ago to a 2 T external hard drive, where the external enclosure stopped, but I took the hard drive out of it, and it was like any other hard drive and all I had to do was plug it in to my desktop as a second hard drive, and it still works today; and I didn't lose any of the data that was on it.
I have used freezing hard drives to good effect on occasion and can be a useful non-invasive step. Obviously bagged with silica gel to avoid condensation issues. Several reasons can attribute the method.
I figured that out many years ago. Tho' I don't recall ever having an external drive fail. I still have an 80gb external I used as a backup, over 15 years ago. It still works fine. I have a HDD dock, plus a couple of loose cable connector type. With the 2½in, you buy a single cable that plugs into the HDD and usb of computer. It powers the drive as well.
Got really excited when I saw this video, but I tried it and it still doesn't work. I can hear it spinning, but the light isn't on and it doesn't show up. I've tried bridges from other working hard drives, bridges I've bought online, nothing,. There's so much cool stuff on there I'd kill to see again.....very sad.
Adding to the plethora of comments letting you know YOU SAVED MY BACON. THANK YOU!!!!! Got my shit BACK, son
currently getting a Critical Hardware error when trying to initialize a few SSDs , thought it was just bad luck -- never thought it was the SATA bridge.. The hdd dock is brilliant just ordered one .. I hope this works!
But will it save my Bacon?
But will it save my goat meat, its so sweet to the taste.
I wonder if this works for a Seagate Backup Drive that is like standing upright, that fell off my desk, manufacture date: 2012. It looks like a black box standing upright on my desk. It is not a portable hard drive. I would want to try this method ALSO with my other two portable drives as well that fell off my desk in 2015, and in 2021.
This guy knows what he's talking about. Thank you. 👍🏽💯
Plus he's entertaining in his nonchalance. I think he'd make a great animated superhero character. Naturally the saved his bacon line would be his trademark.
Hi Theoria, Finding your channel was a spiritual godsend. If I cannot fix my backup drive by myself, do you fix them yourself and is that something I could pay for? Not sure if you would be able to do that but if so I would be willing to pay you whatever your price to ship my backup drive to you and pay for return shipping and have the data recovered. If not, that is fine too I just wanted to inquire.
Thank you,
Tanya.
thanks, but no i dont fix em anymore
Hey T,
I just wanted you to know...... I am an avid follower. Turned pro 2 years ago and have 8 regular clients. AND, I want to say Thank you. I shoot Ballet and other stage type events in NYC. I bought a D7100. Because....YOU WERE RIGHT!!! I'm going thru some lens mistakes right now and am watching your series on lenses. But, I have a few questions if you have the time.
Just had the depeche mode - violator album playing over the top of this, not realising both are on. They make a good combo :D
This is relevant for drives circa 2012 which are still in use today.. The separate SATA/USB bridge found in that vintage drive has since been been integrated on the drive PCB as a reliability and cost reduction improvement.
Interesting. I had a WD external drive I was using for my Time Machine backups stop working after I moved. I cracked the thing open and took the 2 hard drives out and bought a dock to run them in. I didn't realize why the original casing failed. I only had the things for a few months and I didn't think the hard drives inside failed, that it was something else. It was a 4TB drive that had 2TB drives inside.
I don't think I understand where the instructions are other than the info that is just explaining how the hard drive looks inside. Great....but mine fell and unplugged while I was editing a video and now its reading empty. I am not sure where in the video you are saying how to get files back, just that you can rip it open and see the parts. If I do that, I'm screwed. Can you tell me where (minute count) in this video are the steps I can take? All my business files are on this one drive that I treated like a baby till it fell unexpectedly. I only have some of my info backed up. Thanks
Ken!! I didn't expect to find you here, I don't know why I didn't!
No noise. The computer says no hard drive found. Windows 10 sata.
thank you so much, this isn't the first video of yours i've seen, but i recognize that truth always points in the same direction. :)
OMG! I spent 2 hours with apple tech support, they never mentioned this - she just said it's an external hard drive crash, probably dead. Bring it to an apple store. Thank you,
I feel like now, I might be a little more educated, I don't feel like a sitting duck :-) your awesome. How much should I expect to be charged by them or should I put my head down and TRY to understand the fix and do it myself?
I noticed it sounds like a car in the wrong gear. I tried all the R, P holding...Turning off and on, unplugging, blahhh, blah, but the cursor is still in the upper left hand corner and not responding. Also, the bluetooth icon at the top of the (screen to the date) has a squiggley line thru it. the wifi is gray and not communicating. Could your video be what I need?
BTW, I ate bacon twice yesterday!
Do you have any experience with WD My Passports for Mac? Would this process work similarly if I were to purchase a specific Doc?
Some times after dropping a external hard drive you can remove it from it's case and and connect it to the SATA and power cable inside the computer and it can sometimes work to help you retrieve your data
Can you show an actual video of removing a hard drive from it's casing and hooking everything up? I have the black plastic casing off of my hard drive, but there is still the metal casing around it. Do I need to remove that also? Because I tried to use the cords as it is and I'm still getting the errors. I can hear the hard drive spinning, but no clicks.
yes, remove the metal around it
see the pics and article i wrote for apple here
discussions.apple.com/docs/DOC-6121
Yes do this if you want to ensure you will NEVER get your data back.
+Annette Belnap- Tips from a Typical Mom
Before you do anything you should check if you have that hard drive virus that Russia gave millions of Americans. Go into C:/Windows and see if there is a folder named "system32" in there. if there is, then you have it and you must take ownership of the folder, then delete it. PM me for the deets on how to do this. I'll walk you through it, no probs. And, I just want to say you're welcome ahead of time.
It's Part Of Windows You Idiot
Ynnek Thennek: LOL What is the matter with you? Do not EVER give advice on technology to anyone! EVER! I am 60 yrs old and even I know to not remove system32. It's an extremely important part of the Windows system.
Awesome video Thanks so much for posting it.
Well... you saved my bacon... two weeks ago, one external hd for the xbox died; I can hear the spinning, but no light neither was detected by any device. Went to a repair shop and the guy -really rude btw- told me "those can not be repaired", without even check it. "How it happened?" he asked me, I explained, he told me some techno babble about over spinning, etc. I'm not an expert but I know enough to recognize techno babble, I left, and ordered a case 2.5 to usb 3.1, worked like a charm.
shazaaaam
You Saved My Bacon!!! Thank You!!
same thing happened to my brothers 1.5tb external... stopped working one day, gave it to me after he got another one. I ripped it open (was very well made to try stop people getting the drive out) got it out anyway put it straight into PC via sata and boom I have a new HDD lol
What I miss is a description of symptoms. What does "dead" mean within this context?
Okay, I found "If the external HD seems dead immediately without any signs of slowly dying, or noises, this is almost always a certain sign of SATA bridge failure in an external HD."
Thanks, it worked!! Man, you have saved so much bacon, Pigs are everywhere, in the streets, parks etc.... You are the God og Pigs!!! Hail Porky!!
You saved my bacon today. Thank you. Thought I had lost my family pics
Glad I could help
Hey bro I gotta dead drive and bought the Sabrent Dual Bay Docking station but my dead drive shows up but its not highlighted... the light is turning on, but the cloning light is not turning on... its not cloning for some reason... any suggestions??
that's very simple but what happened with soldered on-board controller?
Hello friend , im new to this world but im left to believe that though slower a disk drive would be safer for storing a important data . I assume an ssd failure is unresurectable
Holy shit this saved me a million times over. Not necessarily because the usb-sata bridge was broken, but I think previously I was underestimating how easy it is to get a bad connection of one due to incorrect USB power supply or wires or something. Either way I came here in the hope I could save a huge database of (manually recorded to WAV) music records. Plugged the thing back in with a new setup expecting corruption and voila... it bloody worked.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge, saved my data!! You are brilliant!!
Showing how to tear one apart and connecting the new Sata bridge connector would of been nice.
I have the same one you showing on the monitor, both lights blink on SATA bridge card and the disk spins but drive not showing up on my pc. Do you think I should order the SATA bridge connector replacement for it?
yes, sata bridge, but better is a HD DOCK
@@KenTheoriaApophasis OK thanks for the fast reply
Thanks man this is true , That connect was the problem i tried my Hard drive into old pc and worked
Where do we get this article?
google the name, it comes right up "methodology to protect your data"
hey dude, what straight edge or hardcore band were you in in 2008?
Do you have a step by step idiots guide to removing the casing then using the docking
Hey - thanks for this. What about Sata compenents for the old type of USB? The one that is sort of square ended? I'm aftaid I don't know the correct name for this.
What he doesn't tell you is that the most common cause of failure of the little card is dried up electrolytic capacitors. Best is to replace them all. Only a few, and total cost, less than one dollar the lot!!
Peter
I'm going to try this - THANK YOU THERE IS HOPE YET :D You share such beneficial information, thanks again
have mains powered 4tb seagate hdd, whe first connecting the light is steady after 15-20 seconds it starts flashing then device manager says its not connected to the pc, not showing in windows or seatools any thoghts please
I just wanted to say thank you for this video. I stopped my husband from spending money we didn't have on something we didn't need. 👍👍👍
Not sure if this has been asked before (please excuse if it has) - What HD/SSD manuf should we rely on simply because they use good, quality SATA Bridges. Put another way, which manuf. should we avoid - of course based on yours and other subscribers experience. thanks so much
+Louis Hecht Jr WD BLACK (only the black), hitachi, or Toshiba
there are now only really 4 HD mfg. on earth, theyve all been integrated into one another.
Seagate came up first with the HDD and beat all competitors and bought Western Digital. If you look now everything is made in China. Hitachi is Japanese a great brand to consider even though Hitachi and others have plants in China. My recommendation is to move on to SSD drives. Resistance is futiles you will be assimilated by technology. If you go to bestbuy store and see if they have HDD still.. I am going to choose SanDisk for my SSD to install WIndows in..
I've been holding on to an old external hard drive that failed on me in 2010, hoping that one day I might be able to find a way to salvage my old files. Because of this video I opened it up and found that actual drive is separate from the SATA bridge, so I just bought a simple $10 SATA to USB connector on Amazon to see if I can retrieve that old data. (I have a 2.5 inch, which looks more like 2.7 inches, they must round off in their descriptions, much like they round off data sizes, like saying a 250GB hard drive which is really 230GB.)
EVEN if it doesn't work, I'm thankful to finally find out that I'm able to try. The sad part is I used to be irresponsible with my electronics and dropped the thing a lot, so it may not even work still, BUT, $10 is worth finally putting the mystery to bed. I'll reply in 2 days if managed to get back my data or not.
Thanks man.
YO. IT WORKED! I HAVE ALL MY OLD STUFF BACK! THANK YOU!
Ahem. You saved my bacon.
XtremeIncomeMechaniX muh 2 terrabite hard drive just died
I know this is an older vid, but thank you. I've been dealing with a WD external that went down on me a week ago. Most I've been able to ascertain is something about a damaged partition table. I'll give the adapter a shot!!
Matt Palmer I havevv vs the same problem. Did the hard driver reader work
Hello,I have an 8TB from 2019 and the arm is stuck( short buzzing sound). I took it to Gadget Pros and he said there was no way to get into the drive to manually move arm, no screws, Are theses things sealed so that they can't be opened, beyond the shucking? I pealed back the label and only found one small disc like piece with a small rivet in center. Thank you
ETA: I assume if the arm is indeed stuck,plugging naked HD into dry dock will do no good?
what if my hard drive is clicking, is this a fix for that as well?